Can DAs use wildcards on a name search?
Wildcards are not necessary when searching for a user in NCID. The search utility provides a comparison operation feature, which lets you specify a value to perform against your chosen search field(s). Each search field has a dropdown menu to let you select one of the following values: Equals, Contains, Ends With or Starts With. To perform a ‘wildcard-like’ search, you can select “Contains”, “Ends With” or “Starts With” from the drop-down menu and enter your search criteria in the search field. For example, if you wanted to search for all users whose last name begins with ‘Smit’, you can enter ‘smit’ in the “Last Name” field and select Starts With from the dropdown menu. The search results would then list all users whose last name begins with ‘smit’.
